Today's additions to my to-be-read pile

I got asked in my Yahoo! Groups newsgroup today what was in my to-be-read pile.

Well, as it happens, my favorite ebook retailer, Fictionwise.com, is having a big sale right now, so I picked up the 27 books below. Some -- Isaac Asimov's I, Robot; William Gibson's Neuromancer; and James Alan Gardner's brilliant collection Gravity Wells -- I already had in dead-tree editions; the rest are things that I think I'll enjoy reading:

• 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks
  
  
• Adapting Your Novel for Film by Pauline Baird Jones
  
  
• The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
  
  
• City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
  
  
• Declare by Tim Powers
  
  
• Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis
  
  
• Going for Infinity by Poul Anderson
  
  
• Gravity Wells by James Alan Gardner
  
  
• Guerrilla P.R. 2.0: Wage an Effective Publicity Campaign Without Going Broke by Michael Levine
  
  
• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  
  
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  
  
• Ilium by Dan Simmons
  
  
• Olympos by Dan Simmons
  
  
• Lilith's Brood [Xenogenesis Series Omnibus] by Octavia E. Butler
  
  
• Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Orson Scott Card
  
  
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
  
  
• The Odyssey: Deluxe Edition by Homer & Robert Fagles
  
  
• Old Twentieth by Joe Haldeman
  
  
• The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms by Oxford University Press
  
  
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
  
  
• Saturn's Children: A Space Opera by Charles Stross
  
  
• Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Michael Shermer
  
  
• Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex, and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple by Jeffrey Kluger
  
  
• Speaking of the Fantastic: Interviews with Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors by Darrell Schweitzer
  
  
• The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
  
  
• Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
  
  
• The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream by John Zogby

First up, I think, will be Charlie Stross's new one ...

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